Did anyone else think the series was extremely racist with racial genocide, and racial purity bullshit. I swear most 4channers are racist because of this, thinking they're some sort of special saiyan from Childhood

Powerlevel fights are the dumbest shit, fights where techniques are used situationally and differently each time are more interesting. Think pre soundnin kidnap arch in naruto and one piece. Dragon-ball never really had any internal physics that meant anything.

>>101331407
To be honest, part of the reason I enjoyed DBZ was because of it's raw sledgehammer approach to action. In a manga like DBZ, you expect things to be over the top, where as in Naruto, technique and strategy made fore a better approach to fight scenes compared to its desire to emulate DBZ (funny considering Kishimoto is a big fan of the series) as it dragged on

Say what you will about Dragonball Z, but no one can deny it's popularity. Even people that don't watch anime know Goku, Frieza, and Vegeta. It's been a decade since the anime ended, and games, movies, and toys, are still made based on it. Even hollywood became involved with the series, with the shitfest known as DBZ Evolution. It has near unlimited replay value, and no other anime has been able to garner an audience on the magnitude DBZ did. Thanks to DBZ, many western audiences became anime fans. DBZ saved anime, and it'll do it again.

>>101330458
Amusing how there's only 4 or 5 original characters pictured here, all saiyans, the rest being some sort of fusion of them. Really shows how the power level creep and SSJ nonsense ruined the show.

>>101333588
Pan was 1/4 Saiyan.
I think Krilin is the strongest from Saiyan saga to Cell Saga but after that, he stops training and Tenshinhan eventually get stronger than him.
He could defeat him with Kienzan though.

>>101330930
I started watching DBZ was I was like 12 because nothing else was on in the early 00s and this would air around 5PM, where most stations that aired cartoons on weekday afternoons would conclude the time block (Fox, UPN, WB, WGTW, PBS, etc.). Even then, when WGTW was airing something like Gilligan's Island reruns, it would win out half the time.

>>101330930
The story was just a build up for Goku fighting the new most powerful whatever in the universe, the characters were generic and one dimensional the fights were pretty much the same powerlevel aura screaming energy beam HAAAAAAAAAAAA! even today generic shounen have better action scenes.